'Succession' recap, Season 3, Episode 8: Looking for poison, and finding it
Caroline's wedding brings her family to Tuscany, where Shiv faces ugly truths about herself, Kendall tries his best to unstick himself from his father, and the GoJo deal teeters.
What happened
A number of crucial Succession episodes have been named after their settings: "Prague," "Austerlitz," "Argestes," "Tern Haven," "DC," "Dundee." This week, the titular setting is Chiantishire, a nickname for a part of Tuscany where well-off British folks live or vacation. The Roys are descending upon Chiantishire, in this case because it's the location of Caroline's wedding — she's the mother of Kendall, Roman and Shiv. (She is played, incidentally, by the great Harriet Walter, who also plays Rebecca's mother on Ted Lasso.)
Let's run through just some of the things that happen in this eventful episode:
- Logan springs the GoJo deal with Matsson on Sandy 2 and Stewy, only to see Matsson's tweet about Macao destabilize the entire thing. Roman runs off to try to keep Matsson on board, but he gets the impression that Matsson wants a merger, not an acquisition. To his surprise, Logan is into it, potentially — until Roman sends an explicit picture intended for Gerri to his dad, which undermines Logan's confidence in the deal, in Gerri, and in Roman. Just when it was going so well for the little weasel.
- Shiv has a discussion with her mother that throws
